JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Freed hostage Bar Kuperstein described his feeling while he was in captivity and heard his captors praying in Arabic. “I realized then that I would have to pray with more fervor than them to be released.”
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Kuperstein spoke on Friday at a mass Tefillin event which he organized in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square, hoping that the mitzvos and the joint prayers will enable the return of the remaining 11 bodies of hostages still being held by Hamas. He said that at first he was not allowed to speak Hebrew in captivity and therefore said his prayers silently “in my heart, in the deepest recesses of my soul” and afterwards when he was permitted to talk was able to pray together with other hostages.
שורד השבי בר קופרשטיין בכיכר החטופים: “בהתחלה היה אסור לי להוציא קול, אז התפללתי בשקט בבטן, מהמקום הכי עמוק שיש. אני יודע שהאמונה החזירה אותי משם”@AnnaPines_ pic.twitter.com/Pq7fqc7Ty5
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Participants in the event place Tefillin
Bar, whose mother Julie has become religious in recent years, had heard about her efforts to get people to place Tefillin in his merit and decided that he also wanted to make a public Tefillin gathering – and in the place where all of the rallies took place to free the hostages – Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square. Former chief rabbi David Lau spoke movingly at the event, stating that on Oct. 7th families who were stranded in communities overrun by terrorists knew that soldiers had come when they said Shma Yisrael, and this is the eternal cry of faith of Am Yisrael.
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